# thermometer
## English
### Alternative forms

* thermometre (nonstandard)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- +‎ -meter.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /θəˈmɒmɪtə/
* (General American) IPA: /θɚˈmɑmɪtɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: ther‧mom‧e‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

thermometer (plural thermometers)
* An apparatus used to measure temperature.
** 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1‎, pages 284–5:Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
** 1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
** 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
** 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.

#### Derived terms

* absolute thermometer
* adjustable contact
* air-temperature thermometer
* air thermometer
* alcohol thermometer
* auxiliary thermometer
* bath thermometer
* Beckmann differential thermometer
* Beckmann thermometer
* bimetallic stem thermometer
* bimetallic thermometer
* bi-metal mechanical thermometer
* bulb of a thermometer
* calibrate a thermometer
* calibrated thermometer
* candy thermometer
* capillary thermometer
* Celsius's thermometer
* Celsius' thermometer
* Celsius thermometer
* Centigrade thermometer
* centigrade thermometer
* clinical thermometer
* constant pressure air thermometer
* constant pressure thermometer
* constant-pressure thermometer
* constant volume air thermometer
* constant volume gas thermometer
* constant-volume thermometer
* constant volume thermometer
* contact thermometer
* Coulomb Blockade Thermometer
* Delisle's thermometer
* Delisle thermometer
* dial thermometer
* differential thermometer
* digital thermometer
* direct-reading thermometer
* ear thermometer
* electronic registering thermometer
* electronic thermometer
* empirical thermometer
* ethanol-filled thermometer
* Fahrenheit's thermometer
* Fahrenheit thermometer
* fever thermometer
* filament thermometer
* film thermometer
* forehead thermometer
* freezer thermometer
* fridge thermometer
* Galilean thermometer
* Galileo's thermometer
* Galileo thermometer
* geothermometer
* glass thermometer
* Hauksbee's thermometer
* Hauksbee thermometer
* infrared thermometer
* kata thermometer
* Kata thermometer
* kerosene-filled thermometer
* kerosene thermometer
* Linnaeus's thermometer
* Linnaeus' thermometer
* Linnaeus thermometer
* liquid crystal thermometer
* liquid-in-glass thermometer
* magnetic thermometer
* maximum and minimum thermometer
* maximum minimum thermometer
* maximum-minimum thermometer
* maximum thermometer
* meat thermometer
* mechanical registering thermometer
* medical centigrade thermometer
* medical thermometer
* mercurial thermometer
* mercury-filled thermometer
* mercury-in-glass thermometer
* mercury thermometer
* minimum and maximum thermometer
* minimum maximum thermometer
* minimum-maximum thermometer
* minimum thermometer
* nanothermometer
* non-registering thermometer
* oven thermometer
* palaeothermometer
* paleothermometer
* patio thermometer
* pill thermometer
* platinum resistance thermometer
* pocket thermometer
* primary thermometer
* protected thermometer
* read the thermometer
* Reaumur's thermometer
* Réaumur's thermometer
* Reaumur thermometer
* Réaumur thermometer
* recording thermometer
* reference thermometer
* registering thermometer
* remote-reading thermometer
* resistance thermometer
* reversing thermometer
* secondary thermometer
* self-registering thermometer
* Six's maximum and minimum thermometer
* Six's thermometer
* spirit-filled thermometer
* spirit thermometer
* standard thermometer
* steel-tube mercury thermometer
* sugar thermometer
* telethermometer
* thermometer bulb
* thermometer code
* thermometer column
* thermometer reading
* thermometer scale
* thermometer temperature reading
* the thermometer is pointing to 7 degrees
* the thermometer shows 100 degrees
* toluene-filled thermometer
* turnover-thermometer
* unprotected reversing thermometer
* unprotected thermometer
* upsetting thermometer
* vapor pressure thermometer
* vapour pressure thermometer
* water thermometer
* wet-bulb thermometer
* wine thermometer
* wire-wound thermometer

#### Related terms

* thermistor
* thermocouple
* thermometric
* thermometrical
* thermometrically
* thermometry
* thermoscope
* thermostat

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)

#### Translations
### See also

* barometer
* hygrometer
* temperature sensor
* temperature gun

### Anagrams

* thermometre

## Dutch
### Etymology

From thermo- +‎ meter.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter

### Noun

thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)
* thermometer

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: termometer